The Bolshevik agent who had followed him from the banker's might decide, without the aid of some connecting episode, that he had wasted his time.
It did not matter that Kitty herself was no longer watched and followed from her home to the office, from the office home.

Was Karlov afraid or had he some new trick up his sleeve?
It was not possible that he had given up Hawksley.

He was probably planning an attack from some unexpected angle.

To be sure that Karlov would not find reason to associate him with Kitty, Cutty had remained indoors during the daytime and gone forth at night in his dungarees.
Problem Two was quite as formidable.

The secret agent who had passed as a negotiator for the drums of jeopardy had disappeared.